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MG MGB GT V8 Factory Originals Technical - Website back in operation!

Well, after a brief downtime due to breakdowns in communication with my registrar, my site is back in operation.

I added a bunch of new stuff from the Bellevue ABFM held on July 27th during the last update, and hope to add a updates section on the front page soon.


www.embreyfamily.com/mgb
Larry Embrey

Hi Larry,

Thanks for the excellent photos. I believe you when you say Bill Jacobson's car stole the show; I know it stole my heart! That has got to be the cleanest engine bay in the world...

1 note; your site loads super slow on my system. Granted, I'm only on a dial-up line at 56k, and I'm only using IE 5, but it appears that when it's loading the photos, it's loading the full resolution version, because when a whole photo is loaded, and I click on it, it appears immediately. Several of the photos from the middle to the bottom of the page just had the little white x in the upper corner.

I'm not trying to be critical, just passing along info.

The excellent photos were DEFINITELY worth the wait, and I havn't even seen all of them yet!

Thanks again,

Steve Watson
Steve

Steve,
Yes I am using the full size, just resized via HTML code. I hav toyed with the idea of making smaller versions, but that is a MAJOR PITA and takes up much webspace as well..

If you hit reload those X's should be replaced.. I will publish the site again tonight, it may have missed a few files last time..

Larry Embrey

Larry great photos of all the cars at ABFM. I enjoyed looking at all of them. Bill's under hood treatment is clean! I've been trying to eliminate (hide) all the wires on my setup, it ain't easy. My hat is off to you Bill for a super job.
Michael S. Domanowski

Well I have to say Thanks for the incredible response folks!! I can tell this message board is very popular, as the day I posted this thread I saw almost a 600% traffic increase to my site!

I just added a tips page to the site, it is a SMALL list for now of things to do to avoid many common yet annoying pitfals which I ran into.

As always any tips to improve or expand the site are always welcome. I am looking into the smaller image issue already.

Please send in all your conversion info and photos. Even if your car is not completed, I want whatever pictures and info you have available. People like to see inprogres photos, and watch ans new cars are completed.

Sincerely,
Larry
Larry Embrey

Larry, as a fellow webmaster I can understand that thumbnailing images is a "major PITA". However, the theory that it takes up space has two sides to the coin. They take up additional storage space true, yet using them can lower bandwidth usage, because not EVERYONE will open the full size image so overall you would normally see a reduction in bandwidth, and they make the site much more pleasant for your users. Remember, most people are actually still on dial up connections.

Also, I can clearly see you use Microsoft Frontpage to create all your sites, where as I do mine in Windows Notepad out of choice. Frontpage does a LOT of the work for you and making the thumbnails isn't THAT much of a pain. To make life easier for yourself, always use a constant and simple naming pattern. For me and my sites, all thumbnails have a "t" prefix in the file name, meaning that they ate thumbnailed. For example "tmgb.jpg" would be the thumbnail of "mgb.jpg".

Hope this helps - Good luck!

Great site, however requires extreme patience on dial up! :-D
Laurie

Edit: I just noticed that you have actually thumbnailed the images. My bad.

The site is great if a little slow, but then my Internet isn't the best!

Nice pictures! Keep up the great work!
Laurie

It still takes allot of time with a site this size to change them. I spent about 4 hours Friday thumbnailing the images and then updating about 1/2 of the submited V8 vehicles. Then I have to do my V8 journal pages. It is getting there but slow. I finally found a decent thumbnailer that is saving some time.

I only have dial up as well, so I know what it is like on a high res site.

UPDATE: I have just added Barrie Robinsons car to the site. In going through and thumbnailing I found a directory full of his car and no page.. I am also ading a table of contents for the V8 Diary page so you can see what is covered each month.
Larry Embrey

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